Bug 168742

Summary:	system-config-netboot prepared diskless client has issues with XKB config when running X
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	brian
Component:	system-config-netboot	Assignee:	Radek Brich <rbrich>
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Fixed In Version:	0.1.33-1_EL4	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description brian 2005-09-19 22:12:57 UTC

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Description of problem:
After setting up a diskless image with system-config-netboot I am having issues with clients getting X up and running as expected.  Specifically as X is started via a run level 3 startx or after a login from the gui at run level 5 a window pops up stating "Error activating XKB configuration.  Probably internal X server problem.".  In an effort to correct this I have rerun system-config-display --noui on the client from run level 3 to insure the local personality of the diskless image is correct but the error window continues to pop up each time X is started.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create diskless image
2. boot to run level 3 or 5
3. startx or log into xdm
4. error window reporting XKB error pops up.
  

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jason Vas Dias 2005-09-19 23:53:01 UTC

I think I've found the cause of the problem here:
  /var/lib/xkb 
must be a snapshot directory, because on Xorg startup, it invokes 
'xkbcomp' to compile the keymap description .
When s-c-nb was first develeped XFree86 was in use, and this was not
an issue.
So, to fix:
  1. For each of your $NETBOO/snapshot/$client/ directories, create the
     /var/lib/xkb directory - this command should probably work:

     # for d in $NETBOOT/snapshot/*/var/lib; do mkdir $d/xkb; done

     (where $NETBOOT is the root location of your PXE OS, containing the 'root'
      directory where the OS is installed).

  2. Add /var/lib/xkb to $NETBOOT/snapshot/files.custom

  3. reboot your clients.

The next release will put /var/lib/xkb in the snapshot/files list .

Comment 2 Jason Vas Dias 2005-09-22 16:49:45 UTC

This bug is now fixed with system-config-netboot-0.1.33-1_EL4, which should be
in RHEL-4-U3. Meanwhile, you can download it from:
   http://people.redhat.com/~jvdias/system-config-netboot/RHEL-4 .